Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Kleynhans

We know Windows Live is becoming increasingly more important in the services division, but this seems to indicate that it is taking on a new and even larger role.

Zina Garrison

Venus has put a lot of effort into becoming an all-around player.

Rick Rashid

The personal and informational connections made possible through computing and communications technology are becoming ever more critical to economic, educational and social progress,

Bill Ward

We are losing students because they are becoming discouraged. It's hard to keep their interest when they don't have the facilities to practice.

Tom Kendall

We are seeing a lot of non-traditional investors in commodities, such as mutual funds and pension funds, becoming interested in commodities such as platinum because they want to diversify their portfolios.

Wenonah Hauter

We strongly support efforts to make shellfish safe for consumers, but irradiation clearly is not the answer. The FDA is just throwing one problem on top of another - and this is becoming an illogical pattern.

Ryan MacMurchy

We started building back slowly and becoming that team we were before Christmas again, the No. 1 team in the nation. This weekend, especially, there was no doubt in our dressing room. We had no doubt. We knew it was ours for the taking, it was our tournament to lose.

Ernie Els

Where it used to be kind of the most fun of all the majors, it's becoming the hardest one now. Over four days of competition, it's going to narrow the field dramatically. You will be doing good to break par on the back nine.

Liya Kebede

There are things that I will always shoot, but now that the modeling and acting worlds are becoming very close, you can do a little bit of one and more of the other.

Rep. Caruso

We want to see what he was thinking at the time. He's the one who received the employment. Was it something that he sought? Was it something that the companies offered to him?

Bill Curry

We know as much about running a retail store as brick-and-mortar companies know about running a Web site.

Dan Brush

Vermont companies should have a fair playing field.

Bill Gates

U.K. companies are in very international and very competitive markets. If you look at PC penetration in the U.K., it is very similar to the United States market.

Louis Navellier

There's a lot of companies that profit from a weak dollar.

Michael Specter

When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies - Monsanto is the most famous of them - control so many of the seeds we grow.

John Nolan

The other thing the Internet and overall technology are enabling us to do, quite honestly, is streamline our internal costs, and that's a big deal. We're using the Internet just like a lot of companies to try and drive down costs administratively and then leverage that infrastructure to enhance our core products and offer Internet-related products outside our mainstream.

Ron Carey

The Post Office and the other companies can't manage the volume, ... They shouldn't be dictating; they should be negotiating.

Jim Keyes

We are pleased to join the global companies listed on the world's most prestigious stock exchange, ... Our NYSE listing marks an important milestone for 7-Eleven and will raise our visibility with the financial community.

Ellen Smith

The people who were inspecting the mine will not be the people conducting the investigation.

Brad Mitchell

If, after conducting market research, we find the public wants Christopher, we may revisit the decision.

Peter Hamilton

I think they've been conducting themselves in violation of a lot of different rules and regulations.

Dave Bristow

We've talked with students and the teacher and are conducting an investigation, but so far we haven't found anything to back up the allegations that were made. What we found so far seems to support the teacher's allegations.

Jane Duffield

Most investigators conducting research make that determination themselves.

Jonathan Tucker

Most of the inspectors, even though they have technical skills, are not experienced in conducting inspections, and they'll be on a very steep learning curve.

Steve Collins

Gustav is a true master of the traditional repertoire; it's a real inspiration to work with someone who knows the repertoire with such intimacy. He's such a skilled communicator, and his conducting technique is unparalleled.

Dennis Kucinich

Recently, it has been reported that U.S. troops are conducting military operations in Iran.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

It is important (for the BOJ) to keep conducting appropriate monetary policy by making an overall judgment. I don't see any new factors that warrant a policy change,

Jamie Christensen

We know what's expected of us, and if we don't meet those requirements we know there will be consequences.

Mark Rosenker

The potential consequences of these fires can be catastrophic.

Mark Kennedy

Our communities face many challenges, from keeping our kids safe in public, to the war on terrorism. But few have such immediate consequences as we face from methamphetamine.

Niki Tsongas

We should not be making near-term decisions with long-term consequences without robustly debating these questions and fully considering the substantial and unpredictable risks of these actions.

Victor Conte

way less significant than the consequences that I mete out every single day for crimes that are far less significant.

David McGrew

We have no option but to win. The consequences of losing are catastrophic.

Hubert Williams

Whenever you have a situation like this going on, management has to rise to the occasion. You have to have some consequences for this kind of behavior.

Carlos Gutierrez

The protection of intellectual property is vital to our economic growth and global competitiveness, and it has major consequences in our ongoing effort to promote security and stability around the world,

Prince Charles

We shall never forget that if the Few had failed ... the consequences for this nation would have been unforgettable.

David Shuster

Many conspiracies are not criminal, even conspiracies that involve slamming somebody.

Bernhard Goetz

I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.

Bernhard Schlink

So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.

Daniel Handler

Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

Billy Sunday

Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren't looking!

Ralph Brown

We have some criminals out there. That's why we have lights and security people at Wal-Mart.

Andy Yu

Working together, we will show the criminals that there will be no safe haven for their crimes.

Alan Dershowitz

I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable.

Dave Nabity

What I'd like to be able to do is find out who the criminals are and ship them out.

Terry Hayes

I've always had a great affection for espionage stories. I like weaving them, and I like thrillers.

Gayle Lynds

Look realistically at espionage thrillers again. They're not only alive, readers are excited about them.

Aldrich Ames

There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results.

Jim Sturgess

Out of every 10 scripts I get sent, seven are fairly generic about an American guy who gets the girl and is involved in underground espionage activity.

Janet Levine

This is not in any way, shape or form an espionage case,

Charles McCarry

Espionage and counterespionage go together like horse and carriage.

Dave Baldwin

It was this dark, secluded place with lots of little rooms and passageways, and you just knew there were real spies and espionage taking place.

Sun Tzu

There is no place where espionage is not possible.

Alan Greenspan

If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas, Greenspan said. While he hasn't seen such spreading yet, I expect to.

Mike Hansen

We are prepared to take a look at our financial situation this spring.

Nader Agha

We are prepared to make the offer, but we need some more financial information.

Van Honeycutt

We are pleased with our financial performance for the third quarter during a challenging and turbulent period for IT service providers.

Daymond John

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

Ben Bernanke

We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.

Ben Bernanke

The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.

Ben Bernanke

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.

Lisa Alexander

We want to provide these students with skills before they reach high school or are in a situation where they have to make financial decisions.

Charles W. Pickering

The CARE bill is an important piece of patient-care legislation. It will improve the quality of radiologic procedures performed throughout the United States as well as assist in reducing the cost incurred by the Federal government for these procedures.

Charles Edward Merriam

It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.

Charles Edison

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

Charles Edison

My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

Charles de Gaulle

These people really aim very badly.

Alan Moore

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alan Green

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

Alan Greenspan

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

Alan Greenspan

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

John Hill

My vote had nothing to do with Hacking

Dee Brown

We were hacking more. We were undisciplined on defense.

Dee Brown

We were hacking more and fouling. We weren't disciplined on defense.

Louis Holder

When it comes to people hacking in and eavesdropping . . . it's very hard to do.

Kevin Mitnick

I was hooked in before hacking was even illegal.

Dirk Nowitzki

There was a lot of hacking going on.

Kevin Mitnick

The intent of the individuals who created the DDoS attacks has nothing to do with hacking, and they are vandals, not hackers.

Kevin Mitnick

It's true, I had hacked into a lot of companies, and took copies of the source code to analyze it for security bugs. If I could locate security bugs, I could become better at hacking into their systems. It was all towards becoming a better hacker.

Jennifer Wyatt

I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Passing a tough resolution or threatening Iran will not bring about the desired outcome.

Nicholas Burns

We want the Iranians to negotiate, whether it's with the EU-3 or Russia or any other country, on a serious basis.

Chris Christie

When we empower Iran, then get ready for more unrest and more murder and more violence in the Middle East.

John Reid

The position that has been taken by the Iranians is so extreme,

Fadel Gheit

Until and unless the stalemate with Iran is resolved one way or the other, I think we're going to see prices higher.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

Earl Blumenauer

After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.

Earl Blumenauer

While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.

Edward Luck

Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.

Ari Fleischer

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.

Bill Maher

The president had a press conference about this this week and he said that the U.S. has no plans to attack North Korea. And then he added, 'Like having no plan ever stopped me before.'. He has something even more deadly in store for them - we're going to bring them democracy.

Charles Krauthammer

After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English departments of the more expensive American universities.

Richard Armitage

I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks.

Kevin Roe

Korea was sort of overlooked before, ... but now it's worth investigating.

John Hall

Korea is leading the world in mobile TV.

George Scalise

Korea is a significant market for American semiconductor producers -- in 2005, the Korean semiconductor market was approximately $4.5 billion.

David Woolner

Korea is a real success. It was very much a U.N.-sanctioned operation.

Mark E. Smith

Seventy-five percent of our networks are storage related.

Ralph Nader

should be stripped of their non-profit status, and television networks who work with them should realize they are working with a political organization, not an educational organization.

E. Hicks

It does make people more vulnerable. The wires aren't there to be seen. ... Wireless networks are much less secure.

Doug Gay

It hasn't really surfaced in official networks but that is something we have heard,

Matthew Felling

That was really a retelling of an old tale at that point, and that's not what most people turn to news networks for.

Kara Swisher

Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

Leo Hindery

The platform has now been established. The networks will need to come in and morph,

Andrew Heyward

Each of the networks is in a period of transition. It is extraordinary.

Shari Brill

They need Thursday to be their strong night, ... Thursday was such a strong night for them so long that they used to get by without winning any other night of the week. The other networks used to roll over.

David H. Murdock

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

Brian Sky

To our knowledge, this is the first (designated) film school in Northern Colorado.

Jamie Campbell Bower

When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.

Leah Devlin

We use this work every day in North Carolina. All of these investments are not one-time. They require a sustained commitment.

Thomas Mars

In California, there is a strong tension between north and south.

Tomas Borge

If I could go, I would tell the truth to the North American people. President Reagan personally ordered my visa to be denied.

Rick LeLacheur

Sixty-five percent of our traffic comes in the northeast corner.

Lorde

I'm a Kiwi. I'm from a beach suburb called Takapuna, which is on the north shore of Auckland in New Zealand.

Tom Parsons

If American or Northwest don't go along, fares will roll back.

Robert Stewart

You have to take those threats very seriously.